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Sojourner Truth's Women’s Rights Convention speech. In 1851, Sojourner, a women's rights activist and abolitionist, gave a speech at the convention, and in 1863 its transcription was re-released.
Song Album Notes 1884: C. C. Harrah "The Equal-Rights Banner" An American anthem for women's voting rights, the lyrics were written by Reverend C. C. Harrah, sung to the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner". The second verse mentions the evil of "License", referring to alcohol abuse by men, a central issue for women in the Temperance movement. [1]
Billie Eilish’s tender speech about being a woman brought the audience to tears long before her heartrending performance of the “Barbie” ballad, “What Was I Made For?” at Variety’s ...
Read 2023 Women in Hollywood honoree Fantasia Barrino Taylor’s speech here. My highlight of the night: I’m sitting in my chair, and Jodie Foster comes up and says, “Hi, I’m Jodie Foster ...
Oxfam America invited people to celebrate inspiring women in their lives by sending a free International Women's Day e-Card or honoring a woman whose efforts had made a difference in the fight against hunger and poverty with Oxfam's International Women's Day award. [85] On the occasion of International Women's Day 2012, the ICRC called for more ...
[5] But more than a year later, the song was picked to run behind the opening credits of Stand Up and Be Counted, a lightweight Hollywood women's lib comedy starring Jacqueline Bisset, Loretta Swit and Steve Lawrence. "The decision-makers at Capitol Records thought that, in case the film was a hit, they should release 'I Am Woman' as a single."
The Billboard Women in Music Awards airs Monday (Dec. 12) on Lifetime at 9 p.m. EST. See Gaga's tweet to Madonna below. @Madonna your speech at the Billboard Music Awards was inspiring.
"The March of the Women" is a song composed by Ethel Smyth in 1910, to words by Cicely Hamilton. It became the official anthem of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and more widely the anthem of the women's suffrage movement throughout the United Kingdom and elsewhere.